One of the most anticipated images of the MotoGP preseason has already arrived. The Petronas team has debuted with Valentino Rossi as a great center of attention. ‘Il Dottore’ has worn for the first time the colors of his new team. One of the most anticipated presentations of this year.
As for the motorcycle, it maintains the usual trend of past seasons. Petronas blue divides the space next to black giving rise to one of the most beautiful decorations Of the grill. In addition to Rossi, Franco Morbidelli will be the other person in charge of piloting the Yamaha satellite team motorcycle.
Both Rossi and Morbidelli will ride a 2021 Yamaha
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The season is very important for Petronas because it is not known what will become of their future. At the moment they have not renewed with Dorna to continue racing in MotoGP, although they are expected to do so until 2026. What is not clear is which brand they will be associated with: if they will continue with Yamaha or will they go to Suzuki.
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It must be remembered that it is known, although not official, that Valentino Rossi will have his own team in 2022. Esponsorama will become VR46 and it will no longer be tied to Ducati. So the Petronas and the VR46 will have to be distributed to Yamaha and Suzuki. Here those of Iwata will have the last word: lose an important promotional support or its emblem, Valentino Rossi.
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Last season Petronas was the team that won the most races in MotoGP. Fabio Quartararo had three wins and Franco Morbidelli another three. If they did not win the brands title, it was because of the irregularity and the penalty they suffered after the illegal valves that Yamaha had used were revealed.
Now Valentino Rossi comes to replace Quartararo after a lousy year, the worst of his entire career, in which he only got on the podium once and accumulated many falls with the races he was out of COVID-19. It will be Rossi’s fifth team in the premier class and the first time he’s been a satellite since 2000 and 2001, when he raced his Nastro Azzurro.
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Of course, this year all Petronas motorcycles will be black-legged. Of course, Valentino Rossi will carry a fully updated Yamaha, but it is that Moribidelli will also ride this year’s Iwata bike. Let’s remember that in 2020 he drove the 2019 one, and even so it was worth him to be runner-up in the world.
The 2021 season will start soon with new colours!@sepangracing pic.twitter.com/Faugsn2cIs
– Valentino Rossi (@ ValeYellow46) March 1, 2021
Morbidelli seems the great asset of Petronas to fight for the title, taking into account that Rossi no longer gives for more at his age. Last season Morbidelli finished very fit, and only thirteen points separated him from the title that Joan Mir ended up lifting. Today he has seen his new bike, if he does it well it should not be a surprise to anyone.
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